If you will switch on the generator, it makes a loud noise.

GRAMMAR INCORRECT TO CORRECT:

Incorrect: If you will switch on the generator, it makes a loud noise.

Correct: If you switch on the generator, it makes a loud noise.

Correct: If you switch on the generator, it will make a loud noise.

GRAMMAR: Whenever ‘if’ means ‘every time’ or ‘whenever’, we normally use the present simple tense in both parts of the sentence (the if-clause and the main clause). However, in the main clause, it is usually possible to use ‘will’ instead of the present simple.

In this type of conditional sentence, ‘will’ is never used in the if-clause.

WORD OF THE DAY:

Piecemeal
Adjective, Adverb

Piece by piece; one piece at a time; gradually

The menace of global terrorism needs to be solved using piecemeal approach.


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